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Ma Long can still beat Gauzy, give me a break.

The thing with China is that they always have something for you. The crowd tomorrow will be Chinese since Korea is out. I think WCQ will be overprepared for Felix. It will be interesting to see the result.

Hindsight is 50‐50 but I was confused by the comments about how good Lin was playing as if Felix wasn't playing lights out as well (with no losses compared to Lin).

Is Gauzy the perfect #3 player for.a team? Inquiring minds want to know...

For the Seoul Olympics, Korea situated many of the top players from opposing countries stay far away from the TT Hall. Also had some humid conditions for playing. Completely accidental that they won gold and silver in men's singles at that event. Yes, completely accidental.

When you list the player who has done that in this century vs the men's CNT, let me know. No one is saying something as stupid as that one can't beat the CNT in a single match or play well against one player. Lim Junghoon beat Wang Chuqin in the Asian Cup afew years ago. Noshad Alamiyan beat...

Since everyone else has pointed out how you are making up stuff no one said, no need for me go pile on. If Jang beats both Wang and Fan, your comment will make sense.

Harimoto: Wang Chuqin is hard to beat! Jang: Hold my beer...

It is at 10pm CT/11pm ET. Since you are in Canada it should be on YouTube. If in USA, either VPN or espn3.com.

The picture is not quite as dire as you paint out. The thing is that he already has a 50-50 chance of not being seeded into a Chinese quarter though of course with his luck he will be seeded into one (and in the past, he flunked out when he wasn't anyways). He only guarantees not being in one...

I like your conceptual game, I think OFF- blade *AND* hybrid rubbers is a bit much (slow) for someone as young as you, I would prefer solid OFF blade with Hybrid, or OFF- blade with fast, spinny rubbers. For the backhand stroke itself, the first thing that enabled me to swing better was to use...

IMHO, that is a lefty vs righty deficit helping WCQ, but again, let's see how it goes. When you play close to the table against power and movement, you will always look slower.

It depends. I think top table tennis is a mental game and I am not sure Lin Yun Ju has a better read of the game than Harimoto. Yes his technical foundation is better in most/many ways, but even then, it isn't entirely clear that this is as important as being able to read the game better. And...

I guess that is the biggest reason why I root for him - he is clearly working insanely hard on making himself better after all this years, no one knows whether it is too late (to be honest Metaxa may be right), but if it is too late for him, it is clearly too late for me lol. And I don't mean...

How much money would you place on Japan winning this matchup you have just shown?

That would hurt ESN and Butterfly business model like speed glue did.

The biggest thing I think would change your game is fast arm swing into the ball to generate a lot or spin. This is best practiced against backspin balls, then against all kinds of balls, so that the swing is adaptable to many balls. It might require a lower stance at the table for maximum...

Nothing is going to cut it in the final, we just watch it and enjoy it for what it is. Harimoto should get SYS, Hayata should get CM and Hirano WYD. The funny thing is that all the "stats" that make Japan look scarier will be used to hype up the match by the English commentators but the result...

Exactly. The same Harimoto some believe will never have a chance of beating WCQ beat the Taipei team that just decimated the German team.

However you feel about his moaning and groaning, Dima is a big match player. But Lin is supposed to win this if he finds his full form.